3 Fun Tricks to Use Notepad on Windows

Notepad is one of the oldest built-in apps in Windows. It’s also arguably the simplest text editor you can find on Windows. It’s so simple that people can’t use it for any extensive work, such as coding. But still, it’s a great editor for easy and quick file editing, especially when you are on a computer that doesn’t have any other fancy editors like Notepad++ installed.

Besides, here are three pretty fun tricks that you can use in Notepad.

Use as a personal diary with auto-timestamped entires

You heard that right. It allows you to create a text file in a format that inserts the date and timestamp automatically every time you open the file.

Create a new text file and open it in Notepad.

Type .LOG in the first line.

Save and close the file. You can name it whatever you like.

Now, from this point on, every time you open this file, the timestamp will be inserted automatically at the end of the file, waiting for your next entry to the file.

Making a virus sample to test your anti-virus software

Create a new file in Notepad, paste in the following code to the file and save it.